Easily check the scaling of an image in your…
Often times I look at an InDesign file someone else built and something just doesn’t look right about an image. Sure enough, I check the image scaling and find out that the horizontal and vertical scaling doesn’t match.
The easiest way to check the scaling of your images is to select the image with the Direct Selection tool in your InDesign Tools panel; it’s the second arrow tool (the white one) in the panel. Once the image is selected, the Control panel across the top of the screen will show you the image scaling. If the numbers don’t match, you can easily make an adjustment by typing the same numbers in both input boxes. Of course if you have the Constrain Proportions button clicked (the link icon just to the right of the scaling fields), you need only enter a percentage in one of the input boxes and hit enter to have the same percentage filled in both fields.
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I can’t recall where it is in CS3 and CS4, but there is a preference you can set to automatically bring images in at 100%, rather than keeping the previous size in the box.
yes- that’s a handy feature. here’s my question- it the older versions of InDesign- when you’d import a picture it’d come in at 100%. now let’s say i want to use that same box- but put in a different picture- when i do that- it doesn’t come back in at 100%. it’s some crazy different size and then i always have to go back up and put it to 100%. is there a way to make it ALWAYS import in the images at 100%, no matter how many times you’ve used that same box?
i design yellow pages ads (i work in the telecommunications) and i use the same proofing page layout for each ad. it’s just frustrating when i have hundreds of proofs to get out and each time i import in a picture i have to double check that it’s at 100%.
thanks!
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